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Google’s DeepMind—the group that brought you the champion game-playing AIs AlphaGo and AlphaGoZero—is back with a new, improved, and more-generalized version. Dubbed AlphaZero, this program taught itself to play three different board games (chess, Go, and shogi, a Japanese form of chess) in just three days, with no human intervention. A paper describing the achievement was just published in Science. “Starting from totally random play, AlphaZero gradually l

Hybrid architecture for AGISingularityNET has positioned OpenCog Hyperon as a next-generation AGI research platform that integrates multiple AI models into a unified cognitive architecture. Unlike LLM-centric systems, Hyperon is built around neural-symbolic integration in which AI can learn from data and reason about knowledge.That’s because withneural-symbolic AI, neural learning components and symbolic reasoning mechanisms are interwoven so that one can

Cyber threats don’t follow predictable patterns, forcing security teams to rethink how protection works at scale. Defensive AI is emerging as a practical response, combining machine learning with human oversight.Cybersecurity rarely fails because teams lack tools. It fails because threats move faster than detection can keep pace. As digital systems expand, attackers adapt in real time while static defences fall behind. This reality explains why AI security

What counts as an “AI security tool” in enterprise environments?“AI security” is an umbrella term. In practice, tools tend to fall into a few functional buckets, and many products cover more than one.AI discovery & governance: identifies AI use in employees, apps, and third parties; tracks ownership and riskLLM & agent runtime protection: enforces guardrails at inference time (prompt injection defenses, sensitive data controls, tool-use restrictions)AI sec

The article will be read aloud. (Photo=Google) Google has begun internal testing of a model called “Hydrogen.” It is a lightweight model that is faster and cheaper than existing high-performance models and is expected to become a Flash-tier product in the recently unveiled “Gemini 4” series. As Google employees’ internal testing is confirmed and related performance evaluations are being shared among external developers, there are indications that the launc

I’ll read the article. (Photo=Naver) Naver has secured its first supply contract worth approximately KRW 2 trillion in the AI factory business it is pursuing with Nvidia and Brookfield. Operating profit fell more than 20% in the third quarter due to the burden of infrastructure investment, but Naver expects the AI factory business to contribute to actual profits beginning in 2027. Naver CEO Choi Soo-yeon said during the third-quarter earnings conference ca

UK regulator threatens universities with sanctions unless they adopt AI-proof exam formats View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 11, 2026 AI makes it "close to impossible" to fairly grade student coursework, England's higher-education regulator the Office for Students (OfS) says. The agency is urging universities to bring back traditional exams and in-person presentations, the Guardian reports. A joint OfS and Advance HE survey of more than

Enterprise sales push OpenAI's quarterly revenue to $10 billion, though it still trails Anthropic View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner Nov 11, 2026 GPT-Image-2 prompted by THE DECODER Key Points OpenAI grew its quarterly revenue about 50 percent to $10 billion but posted an adjusted operating loss of $10.9 billion. Rival Anthropic operates far more efficiently, bringing in $17 billion in revenue over the same period with an operating loss of j

Grok-built apps exposed patient data, plaintext passwords, and SpaceXSI's own sales pipeline View the LinkedIn Profile of Jonathan Kemper Nov 11, 2026 Nano Banana Pro prompted by THE DECODER Key Points Security firm Claroc found nearly 95 percent of more than 37,000 web apps built with the AI assistant Grok were publicly accessible without login. The exposed apps included confidential business documents from SpaceXSI and X, as well as sensitive third-party

Block's new AI model Dessa was trained entirely on human speech to catch emotions text-based models miss View the LinkedIn Profile of Matthias Bastian Oct 24, 2026 Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, has unveiled an AI speech model called Dessa. Block says Dessa is the first AI model trained entirely on human speech, with no text data at all, built from scratch. Instead of converting audio to text first, Dessa processes speech directly as audio.

AI translation company DeepL cuts around 250 jobs to rebuild as an "AI-native" organization View the LinkedIn Profile of Maximilian Schreiner May 7, 2026 AI News Without the Hype – Curated by Humans Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section. Subscribe now